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Quotes About Managers

Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.
~ David Graeber
Investors and senior managers all too often take the view that resources are fungible and easily replaced.
~ David J. Anderson
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
~ Jose Mourinho
If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.
~ Ken Blanchard
This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
~ Clayton Christensen
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
~ Earl Weaver
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
~ Tony Dovale
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
~ Jack Welch
Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.
~ David Beckham
[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.
~ Jason Fried
There's simply no getting around it: in hiring for remote-working positions, managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers.
~ Jason Fried
It's much likelier to breed a culture of overwork if managers and owners are constantly putting in He-Man hours.
~ Jason Fried
Sixty-three percent of executives surveyed say that their biggest challenge to effective performance management is that their managers lack the courage and ability to have difficult feedback discussions.7
~ Douglas Stone
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
~ Barton Gellman
I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.
~ Diego Costa
That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.
~ Don Cooper
I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I've met plenty of CMOs in life, and I always say that I've never met any that can hold a candle to rock stars, who I truly believe are the greatest brand managers in the world.
~ Michael Rapino
I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.
~ Ryan Mason
Clubs don't change managers unless there is something wrong.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
~ Jay Mohr
One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
~ David Moyes